Comparing the Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses’ Turnover Intentions before and during the Pandemic in Qatar
Abstract
1. Background
2. Methods
2.1. Data Collection
2.2. Ethical Approval
3. Statistical Analysis
4. Results
Stress Levels during and before COVID-19
5. Discussion
6. Limitations
7. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Ethics Approval
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Characteristics | Categories | N | Percentage (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Gender | Male | 166 | 32.4 |
Female | 346 | 67.6 | |
Marital status | Single | 115 | 22.5 |
Married | 391 | 76.4 | |
Other | 6 | 1.2 | |
Education | Diploma | 43 | 8.4 |
BSN | 408 | 79.7 | |
Graduate Studies | 31 | 11.9 | |
Assigned to a COVID-19 facility | Yes | 309 | 60.4 |
No | 203 | 39.6 | |
Role during crisis | Bedside nurse | 205 | 40 |
Charge Nurse, Coordinator | 307 | 60 | |
Original unit of assignment | Med/surg | 138 | 27 |
Critical Care | 93 | 18.2 | |
Emergency | 78 | 15.2 | |
Pediatrics | 48 | 9.4 | |
Other | 155 | 30.3 | |
Area of assignment in a COVID-19 facility | Not Deployed | 205 | 40 |
Critical Care | 86 | 16.8 | |
Emergency | 49 | 9.6 | |
Quarantine Facilities | 40 | 7.8 | |
Other | 132 | 25.8 | |
Mean | SD | ||
Age | 36.54 | 7.42 | |
Years of experience as a nurse | 6.54 | 4.46 | |
Deployment duration in a COVID-19 facility (n = 307) | 4.36 | 2.41 | |
Frequency | Percentage | ||
Stress level during COVID-19 | No stress | 11 | 2.1 |
Mild | 81 | 15.8 | |
Moderate | 160 | 31.3 | |
Much | 170 | 33.2 | |
Extreme | 90 | 17.6 | |
Stress level before COVID-19 | No stress | 45 | 8.8 |
Mild | 251 | 49 | |
Moderate | 131 | 25.6 | |
Much | 5 | 12.7 | |
Extreme | 20 | 3.9 |
Statistic | df | Sig. | Mean | 95% CI | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TO before COVID-19 | 0.105 | 512 | 0.000 | 13.24 | 12.83–13.66 |
TO during COVID-19 | 0.089 | 512 | 0.000 | 15.54 | 15.03–16.04 |
Turnover Intention Sig. (2-Tailed) | ||
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Before COVID-19 | During COVID-19 | |
Gender | 0.259 | 0.859 |
Age | 0.031 * | 0.125 |
Marital status | 0.073 * | 0.007 * |
Years of experience | 0.001 * | 0.023 * |
Education | 0.885 | 0.661 |
The original field of expertise | 0.342 | 0.513 |
Working in a COVID-19 designated facility | - | 0.648 |
Role during the pandemic | - | 0.136 |
Deployment | - | 0.047 * |
Deployment duration | - | 0.400 |
Stress level | 0.000 * | 0.000 * |
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Nashwan, A.J.; Abujaber, A.A.; Villar, R.C.; Nazarene, A.; Al-Jabry, M.M.; Fradelos, E.C. Comparing the Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses’ Turnover Intentions before and during the Pandemic in Qatar. J. Pers. Med. 2021, 11, 456. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11060456
Nashwan AJ, Abujaber AA, Villar RC, Nazarene A, Al-Jabry MM, Fradelos EC. Comparing the Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses’ Turnover Intentions before and during the Pandemic in Qatar. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2021; 11(6):456. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11060456
Chicago/Turabian StyleNashwan, Abdulqadir J., Ahmad A. Abujaber, Ralph C. Villar, Ananth Nazarene, Mahmood M. Al-Jabry, and Evangelos C. Fradelos. 2021. "Comparing the Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses’ Turnover Intentions before and during the Pandemic in Qatar" Journal of Personalized Medicine 11, no. 6: 456. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11060456
APA StyleNashwan, A. J., Abujaber, A. A., Villar, R. C., Nazarene, A., Al-Jabry, M. M., & Fradelos, E. C. (2021). Comparing the Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses’ Turnover Intentions before and during the Pandemic in Qatar. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(6), 456. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11060456